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Cheesy Chicken

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By: Leigh Anne WilkesPosted: 10/05/15Updated: 9/23/21

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Cheesy Chicken is a family favorite!

This cheesy chicken recipe has been a family favorite of ours for years. Topped with cashews for a little crunch!
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Note:  This Wilkes family favorited deserved a face lift.  It was originally posted on Nov.17, 2009

Today’s recipe is one I got years ago from Julie, a friend from church.

She and I were taking dinner into another friend who had just had a baby.

Julie fixed Cheesy Chicken because it was our friends favorite dish.

I made the salad and dessert.  I was also in charge of delivering the dinner.

Now for one of my finer moments….

Cheesy Chicken

I pulled into the new mom’s driveway, parked and got out of the car to get the food from the other side of the car where I had put it.  I opened the car door.  During the trip over the food had shifted and the casserole dish full of wonderful, hot, bubbly and cheesy chicken came crashing out of the car onto the cement driveway!

I couldn’t believe it!  I had to go to the door and tell this family that their dinner was now dripping down their driveway!  I was so embarrassed!!

They were of course very understanding, and the husband got out the hose and washed their dinner down the drain!!

Cheesy Chicken

I went off to the grocery store to pick up some fried chicken!

Despite that horrible experience, Cheesy Chicken has become one of our family favorites and is a dish I often take when I am asked to take dinner to someone.  I ALWAYS check before I open the car door now though!!!

Cheesy Chicken

Do you have a favorite dish you always take when you are asked to take dinner into someone?  I’d love for you to leave the recipe in the comment section so we can all see!  I need a few new ideas!

Our favorite side dish to serve Cheesy Chicken with is rice pilaf.    I love to use this pan to cook my Cheesy Chicken in.

So here’s our favorite – Cheesy Chicken!

5 from 2 votes
Cheesy Chicken

Cheesy Chicken

Recipe From: Leigh Anne Wilkes
Creamy and cheesy chicken casserole.
serves: 8 servings
Prep:15 minutes minutes
Cook:1 hour hour
0 minutes minutes
Total:1 hour hour 15 minutes minutes
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Ingredients

  • 8 boneless skinless chicken breasts

Sauce:

  • 14 oz can cream of chicken soup 1 can
  • 14 oz can cream of mushroom soup 1 can
  • 1/3 can beef broth
  • 1/3 C Parmesan cheese
  • 1/4 tsp garlic powder
  • 1/2 tsp poultry seasoning
  • 1/4 tsp pepper
  • 1 Tbsp parsley flakes
  • 1/3 cube/stick of butter melted
  • 2 oz. whole cashews
  • 1 lb. grated Monterey Jack cheese

Instructions

  • Mix sauce ingredients together
  • Melt butter in 9 x 13 dish. I used my heavy roasting pan
  • Lay chicken over butter
  • Cover with 3/4 of sauce
  • Bake 1 hour at 325.
  • Add rest of sauce and cashews
  • Top with cheese
  • Turn oven off
  • Leave in oven for 5 more minutes

Nutrition Facts:

Calories: 388kcal (19%) Carbohydrates: 3g (1%) Protein: 42g (84%) Fat: 22g (34%) Saturated Fat: 13g (81%) Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g Monounsaturated Fat: 7g Trans Fat: 1g Cholesterol: 128mg (43%) Sodium: 855mg (37%) Potassium: 540mg (15%) Fiber: 1g (4%) Sugar: 1g (1%) Vitamin A: 511IU (10%) Vitamin C: 2mg (2%) Calcium: 484mg (48%) Iron: 1mg (6%)
* Disclaimer: All nutrition information are estimates only. Read full disclosure here.
Course:Main Dish
Cuisine:American
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  1. Gloria says

    Posted on 3/19 at 12:50 pm

    I love your story and the others mishaps as well.
    This recipe really sounds good, I will try it Sunday for dinner.
    I really like the recipes I find that have a picture included. Are you going to do that? It would help.

    Reply
    • Leigh Anne says

      Posted on 3/19 at 1:22 pm

      Gloria, I hope you enjoy the recipe as much as we do! The picture should print with the recipe, somehow it got turned off but I just turned it back on so it should be working now.

      Reply
  2. Paula says

    Posted on 11/8 at 5:50 am

    I’m making this for lunch (we’ll eat also your rice pilaf. I hope I don’t burn vermicelli, that scares me!!!

    It looks delicious! Here I have never founded Monterey, so I’ll use vintage cheddar, let’s see what happen!

    I hope my boyf, who hates mushrooms, won’t discover I used cream of mushroome, as I have use less than you said, and substitute for more cream of chichen 😛

    Have a nice Sunday!!

    Reply
  3. Becki says

    Posted on 10/5 at 4:48 am

    This sounds delicious and I love your story. It reminds me of a time that I was going to a potluck with my mom when I was little and I was supposed to be holding the crockpot steady and I got distracted and it tipped over. Think that was the only time in my life I heard my mom curse:-). My favorite standby is Swiss chicken casserole with chicken breast, cream of chicken soup, swiss cheese and stuffing. It isn’t very healthy but its sooo good. This recipe kind of reminds me of that – we need those recipes every once in a while!

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    • Leigh Anne says

      Posted on 10/6 at 8:45 am

      Becki, Love your story! I remember once going to a church potluck and putting my foot into the dish my mom made as we got out of the car!!! Your standby sounds delicious!!

      Reply
  4. Char says

    Posted on 3/15 at 12:21 pm

    Made your Thai coconut chicken soup and my family loved it. It is now one of our favorites.
    You need to put out a cookbook!! I will be making this cheesy chicken in the next few days.

    Reply
    • Leigh Anne says

      Posted on 3/15 at 1:15 pm

      So glad your family enjoyed it!!

      Reply
  5. Leslie Owen says

    Posted on 9/28 at 1:40 pm

    Sweet friend Leigh Anne ~ When I heard your cheesy chicken was all over my driveway I was ready to go out there with a fork and eat it off the concrete! We have enjoyed your yummy dish many times over the years and thought of your kind efforts with a good laugh each time. That boy is a senior now – can you believe it’s been that long?! Thanks for sharing your kitchen delights. Pinned many, made most, every one a winner! We’re havin’ cheesy chicken for dinner tonight! xoxo

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    • Leigh Anne says

      Posted on 9/28 at 2:29 pm

      Leslie – how fun! I never make cheesy chicken without thinking of you and my humiliation that day!! So glad you have found memories of it too. It was fun to meet and connect with your mother recently. Hard to believe that baby is almost grown. Enjoy dinner!!

      Reply
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